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6:04 PM ET Alex Kirkland Goals from Karim Benzema and Marco Asensio gave Real Madrid a 2-0 win over Alaves on Friday to go four points clear of Barcelona at the top of La Liga with three games to go. Alaves hit the bar with just three minutes played and Raphael Varane cleared the follow-up

5:30 AM ET The draw to determine the quarterfinals and semifinals of the Champions League will take place in Nyon, Switzerland at 11 a.m. BST (6 a.m. ET/12 p.m. CET). Due the unprecedented stoppage brought upon by the global coronavirus crisis, the tournament will be formed of one-off matches in Lisbon with the four remaining

9:12 AM ET The Champions League is back, but not as we know it. With 12 teams, 11 games and a World Cup-style last eight, it will take seven straight knock-out ties in the space of 12 days at two venues in Lisbon, Portugal, to decide who will be crowned European champions. With the COVID-19

11:56 PM ET Montreal Impact head coach and France legend Thierry Henry took a knee for the first eight minutes and 46 seconds of his team’s MLS is Back Tournament opener against the New England Revolution on Thursday in memory of George Floyd, who was killed in police custody in Minnesota in May, causing mass

6:22 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, England — There is something beginning to stir at Manchester United. After seven years of decline and drift since Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager in 2013, Thursday’s 3-0 victory at Aston Villa was just the latest example of the upward trajectory of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team. Back in January, Solskjaer

9:00 AM ET The Premier League is now halfway to completing ‘Project Restart’ after overcoming weeks of uncertainty to get competitive football off the ground again following the COVID-19 shutdown in March. 2 Related It has still not been a case of ‘normal service resumed’ due to games being played behind closed doors, increased substitutions

Jul 7, 2020 Austin LindbergESPN FC Soccer in the U.S. and Canada is back. Nearly four months after Major League Soccer shut down on March 12 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the MLS is Back Tournament gets underway Wednesday in Orlando, Florida, though it will do so without FC Dallas, which withdrew from the tournament

12:22 PM ET Last week we opened a portal into a different dimension: one in which Lionel Messi plays form someone other than Barcelona. His Barcelona contract expires in June of 2021 and, according to reports in Spain, he has broken off extension talks and is considering his future. Messi is apparently unhappy with the

Jul 5, 2020 Liverpool sealed the Premier League title as Manchester City slipped to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Chelsea. This has been no ordinary title campaign. Liverpool have ended their 30-year wait in style and sent records tumbling in the process. Here, we look at the amazing new standards Jurgen Klopp’s team

3:27 PM ET Shaun Reynolds Chelsea’s defensive issues were prevalent once more as Frank Lampard’s side recorded a 3-2 Premier League victory over Crystal Palace on Tuesday night. Christian Pulisic and Olivier Giroud put Blues two goals up before the half-hour mark, although they conceded twice before the full-time whistle was blown, with substitute Tammy

7:22 PM ET Jamie Vardy opted not to join Arsenal in 2016 because he believed Leicester City offered the better chance of Champions League football. It has taken longer than anyone at either club would have liked but after Tuesday’s 1-1 draw at the Emirates, he may just be proved right. Neither the Foxes nor

12:20 PM ET After a nearly four-month hiatus, the games are about to resume for MLS. It hasn’t been easy, what with a global pandemic and an overall struggle to keep players and staff free of COVID-19, but enough has been done to enable the tournament to begin. For just about every team it’s felt

Jun 29, 2020 Real Madrid inched closer to the title in Spain, Man United turned on the style vs. Bournemouth and Serie A’s three-team title race might be down to just one team. (Yep, it’s Juventus.) It’s Monday, and Gab Marcotti reacts to the biggest moments in the sport of football from the past week.

5:25 PM ET FC Dallas will not participate in the MLS is Back tournament following the high number of positive tests of the coronavirus within the club, sources have told ESPN. 1 Related Dallas had three players test positive before the team arrived to Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex on June 27. That has

7:48 AM ET Ole Gunnar Solskjaer really wanted to sign Erling Haaland from FC Salzburg in January, make no mistake about that, but there were two significant reasons why Manchester United abandoned their pursuit of the Norwegian striker. One of them was Mason Greenwood. The other, reported by ESPN at the time, was that United

2:15 PM ET Since arriving at the MLS is Back tournament in Orlando on June 27, 11 FC Dallas players and staff tested positive for COVID-19. By the end of the week, 14 players — including one from the Columbus Crew — and two non-players had tested positive. Even as more teams arrive by the

6:39 PM ET Barcelona produced their best display since La Liga restarted last month as they won 4-1 at Villarreal on Sunday but they remain four points adrift of league leaders Real Madrid. Gerard Moreno cancelled out an early own goal from Pau Torres in an end-to-end opening before Barca put their foot on the